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I agree with so many of the comments. I would like to be able to split an employee's wages across multiple tracking categories for funding acquittal purposes.

I think that adding tracking categories to the pay template would be great as you can set and forget until circumstances call for the template to be updated. It would mean you can add multiple earning lines to track across multiple categories too. On top of this you can add tracking to reimbursements, deductions and superannuation.

It would be a valuable upgrade to many.

Please allow and update XERO timesheets with project tracking to be approved and not override salary wage earners and then this would allow the tracking to work on each project P&L report without having to manually produce these in an EXCEL Spreadsheet, thank you!

I believe there is a simple solution to the problem of tracking categories in payroll.

You allow a default Employee Groups and Timesheet Category to be setup for each Employee. Currently only the Employee Group is able to be nominated in the Employment section when setting up an employee.

In this way all employee costs will be allocated correctly to the 2 tracking categories and eliminate the need for manual journals.

If the employee's costs are to be allocated to a different Employee and/ or Timesheet Category this can be done via timesheets.

Would be geat to be able to add an additional employee group in tracking categories. I currently have 2 tracking categories one being for enterprise and the second being for property. It would be handy to be able to allocate to both trackers as when we go to do a budgets in xero and we select the enterprise and then the property, the payroll does not allocate to the report as payroll only allocates to one level of the tracking and not both.

This also relates to all reports in Xero. I do not want to add manual journals to fix this error, as similar to the above, it is time consuming and then I have to reconcile to make sure I have allocated it all correctly.

This is essential for charity accounting

Agree completely.

Would be good to be able to put a tracking code on a pay item eg reimbursements

Currently have to do this in a journal to track phone reimbursement for various departments.

Categories to be assigned in the actual payrun as opposed to Employee Details level.

It is important to classify the Pay of employees from different functional area. As every functional area head will have a visibility on overall expenses with respect to their departments.

As a charity, I would like to be able to split an employees pay across different grants/funds. Being able to assign an employee to more than one employee group with a specified % split for each fund/group would have a massive impact for me. At the moment I am having to do so many manual journals which are error prone as others have said.

Xero currently only allows individual employees to be assigned by one particular employee group under Employment in Employees for cost tracking purpose.

It is fairly common now that employees work across different departments in the organisation and it makes more sense if Xero enables more tracking categories to be assigned not under employees but in the actual pay run. This function shouldn't be limited to projects only. In MYOB, you are able to do so by assigning jobs to wage, tax and super when processing pay runs for all subscribers with payroll function.

When an employee works for multiple tracking categories within the business... Now, there is only one category that we can apply to in an employee card...however, sometimes, they work for more "tracking categories" ..it would be handy if we could select more category options while processing pay runs..

Yes very time consuming when doing big payrolls, we have to then go and do a manual journal for all allowances, super, leave for everything we can't code on timesheets.

Would be great to be able to set this up on their templates with the option of being able to split out the coding also so if an employee was working on several jobs.

100% agree - this is really important. the only way to do this at the moment is with manual Journals which is tedious, time-consuming and error prone!

No idea why it wouldn't be there as standard if 2 Tracking codes are available on all the other transactions.

As Xero does not provide multiple tracking categories to be linked to timesheet, I have to reverse the payroll journal and enter the GL with the job code. It is really time consuming by re-allocating the job code to each employee's pay, just like manually redoing the payroll.